 | Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1905 - 786 páginas
...which arouse in us noble emotions — is, in a word, taste; so that perfect taste has been defined as " the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...perfection." He who receives little pleasure from those sources lacks taste : he who receives pleasure from any other sources has false or bad taste.... | |
 | 1910 - 628 páginas
...unable to again get afloat and into the swim. For success or otherwise, — as appears to "OLD FORTY." "Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from these material 'sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection: He who... | |
 | James Watt Raine - 1915 - 222 páginas
...Festus. Deep thoughts, or thoughts difficult to follow, must be uttered slowly for the same reason. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste. — Ruskin. Sad thoughts are uttered slowly because sorrow takes away one's vivacity. Break, break,... | |
 | Stephen James Meredith Brown - 1921 - 232 páginas
...Like all our other instincts, it may be cultivated or checked, directed or diverted. Ruskin calls it " the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...those material sources which are attractive to our human nature in its purity and perfection." 1 Which ' material sources ' (not a perfectly chosen term,... | |
 | 1903 - 602 páginas
...what man would do. The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life. — R. Browning. Perfect tastes is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. — Ruskin. ALEXANDER D. MacKINNON, Ph.D. BY J. MACKAY. There are few Scotchmen and fewer Canadians... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1981 - 308 páginas
...for such "love," the more complete would be his experience. Perfect taste in art was "the faculty for receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection." 30 And the greatest art was accordingly the art which most appealed to that receptive power, the art... | |
 | Maria K. Bachman, Don Richard Cox - 2003 - 424 páginas
...signs of artistic genius. In Modern Painters, Ruskin articulates the common Victorian perception that "[p]erfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste."18 In Dickens's famous article "Old Lamps for New Ones" — which Nuel Pharr Davis describes... | |
 | Terri Doughty - 2004 - 188 páginas
...colour, in proportion, and in combination, &c. Mr. Ruskin says that " Perfect taste is the faculty for receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those...pleasure from any other sources has false or bad taste." We should strive, then, to cultivate this true taste and not be led away by the varying tastes of fashion.... | |
 | O. C. (ed.) - 1993 - 204 páginas
...pleasure from any given object, is a man of taste This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...and perfection. He who receives little pleasure from those sources, wants taste ; he who receives pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1928 - 312 páginas
...difficult to obey, that he may bestow a delight which it is gracious to bestow. (Fors Clavigera, in.) Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. (MP L) Good art always consists of two things. First, the observation of fact, secondly, the manifesting... | |
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Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. 
